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Online dating 101

So girls and guys must have drastically different experiences with online dating.The girls post a profile and get bombarded with messages from guys, guys scan profiles and message the girls.I don’t smoke, but don’t mind if you do…Well, message me if you want to go out.” Messages like this are not only boring (if she wants to know about you she’ll either click on your profile or, even better, ask you), but they give no indication of why you want to go out with her. Try something like this instead: “Whoa, you studied abroad in Ghana? Once she laughs, she lets her guard-down a little, she thinks you’re funny, and probably smart. Did you ask her a question, did you set-up a joke she could build on?

With the popularity of the Internet came the popularity of Internet personals.

Though online dating sites are skewed toward either straight men and women or gay men, offer, or at least pretend to offer, options for the rest of the LBTIQ. Prior to Internet dating—though some who read this will not have a clue what I’m talking about—dating ads were placed in magazines and newspapers.

They, in fact, still can be found in many major papers and local mags.

The personals section usually was stereotyped as the place the truly desperate or ugly would go to find true love.

The stereotype was reinforced because television shows and movies usually made it look just like that.